248 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
HONEYSUCKLES 
Natural Order CAPRIFOLIACEH. Genus Lonicera 
LonIcERA (named by Linneus in honour of Adam Lonicer, a German 
botanist, 1528-1586). A genus of erect or twining shrubs, including 
about eighty species. They have simple, opposite leaves. Calyx-tube 
oval, or nearly globular, with five teeth. Corolla tubular, bell-shaped or 
funnel-shaped, with irregular limb, obliquely cut or two-lipped. Stamens 
five. Natives of the Temperate and warmer regions of the Northern 
Hemisphere. 
LoNICERA CAPRIFOLIUM (Goat-leaf). Perfoliate Honey- 
uckle. Stems twining. Leaves broadly oval or oblong, 
the upper pairs joined by their bases. Flowers dull red without, yellow 
within; May and June. Native of Europe, naturalised locally in 
England. 
L. FLEXUOSA (flexuous). Japanese Honeysuckle. Stems twining. 
Leaves oval-oblong, some entire, others lobed like an oak-leaf ; opposite. 
Flowers small, pale yellow, in pairs, fragrant; June and July. Native 
of Japan (1806). There is a var. Aurea reticulata, whose leaves are 
netted or blotched with yellow. 
L. FRAGRANTISSIMA (most fragrant). Stems erect, 6 feet high. 
“Leaves oblong. Flowers white, tube short, but mouth nearly an inch 
across; fragrant; February. Native of China (1845). 
PERICLYMENUM. Woodbine. Stems twining, 10 to 20 feet. 
Leaves oval; upper stalkless. Flowers in terminal heads ; red without, 
yellow within; fragrant; June to September. Native. 
L. SEMPERVIRENS (evergreen). Stems twining, 15 feet high. Leaves 
ovate; upper pairs joined by their bases. Flowers scarlet without, 
yellow within; in terminal whorled spikes; May to August. Introduced 
from North America (1656). 
Loniceras succeed in any good garden soil. The 
climbing species should be planted against a trellis, 
h, or arbour. Most of the species produce their flowers on 
the newly-formed shoots, and may therefore be cut back freely 
in autumn, but L. fragrantissima and L. Standishit flower early 
im the year on the old wood. These must not be pruned until after 
flowering. L. sempervirens is best grown in a cool house, where it 
may be trained up pillars. Propagation is chiefly effected by cuttings 
or layers. 
Principal Species. 
Cultivation. 
